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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8094060 | Method of detecting a target A method for processing returns from a sensor, such as a radar system, in order to identify targets is provided. The method uses a track before detect routine to integrate data from several scans in order to give better discrimination. In running the track before de... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7612707 | Configurable radar sensor Multiple signal characteristics representing an entire field of view of an FMCW (FM-CW) sensor are evaluated to determine whether the field of view has changed. Signal characteristics representing the field can be compared to representative signal characteristics ob... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7567204 | Method for determining noise floor level and radar using the same A method for a radar for detecting a noise floor level of an electric signal corresponding to an incident radio wave received by the radar, the incident radio wave including a return of a radar wave that is transmitted from the radar toward a measuring range of the ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7522093 | Radar for detecting a target by transmitting and receiving an electromagnetic-wave beam A radar that detects whether spike noise due to an interference with a transmission signal from an object vehicle is superimposed on a beat signal obtained from the transmission signal and a reception signal. When the spike noise is detected, a threshold for extract... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7504989 | On-vehicle radar device An on-vehicle radar device has a transmission section for transmitting a radio wave to an object, a receive section for receiving the radio wave reflected by the object, and a processing section for dividing an object detection range into three or more of a pluralit... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7420503 | Small-sized low-power dissipation short-range radar that can arbitrarily change delay time between transmission and reception with high time resolution and method of controlling the same In a configuration according to a short-range radar of the present invention and a method of controlling the same, the timing at which a variable-period pulse output from a variable-period pulse generator including a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) has shifted in l... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7397419 | Radar apparatus and failure detection method thereof The present invention provides a radar apparatus, which can diagnose failure at low cost with high accuracy, and a failure diagnosis method thereof. An antenna serves as both a transmit antenna and a receive antenna. A transmit and receive select switch switches the... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7359469 | Signal delaying device and method for dynamic delaying of a digitally sampled signal A signal delaying device (1) for the dynamic delaying of a digitally sampled input signal comprises a memory element (2) and a series-connected interpolation element (3). According to the invention, a register (30), which can be connected... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7342532 | Radar system and contamination judging method Provided are a radar system and a contamination judging method capable of reducing adjustment costs and detecting contamination adhering to a radome with accuracy. The radar system includes an antenna for transmitting a transmission wave in a plurality of different ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339517 | Radar A radar wherein a first threshold value is determined in accordance with the intensity of background noise; second threshold values are set in a fixed frequency area around base portions of peaks in the frequency spectrum; the higher one of these second threshold va... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336220 | Method and apparatus for equalizing broadband chirped signal In order to generate a signal for canceling a chirped signal, a transmitter generates a cancellation signal along with the transmitted signal, using a single term variable complex gain multiplier adapted to cancel the chirped signal only at its instantaneous frequen... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336219 | System and method for generating a radar detection threshold A method for generating a radar detection threshold includes computing a first plurality of percentile values associated with frequency domain values of frequency domain signals. The first plurality of percentile values is used to generate detection threshold values... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333048 | Periphery monitoring system In a periphery monitoring system for monitoring movements of a mobile object around an installation location of a Doppler sensor, a signal output from the Doppler sensor is subjected to an FFT analysis, and a total sum of the frequency levels of all of the frequency... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327303 | Hybrid radar receiver A hybrid radar receiver includes an antenna array for receiving an input signal having a radar signal from a signal emitter. Each array element outputs an analog signal on a respective data channel. For each data channel, an activatable A/D converter is provided. A ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324040 | Method of automatically setting the gain of an interrogator receiver within a non-contacting identification system An attack is activated in a receiver amplifier of an interrogator whenever an amplified input signal exceeds an attack threshold voltage value Vatt, and the receiver amplifier at least during a waiting period, the length of which preferrably equals the double length... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7313333 | Apparatus for controlling decision threshold voltage to optical receiver Disclosed herein is an apparatus for controlling a decision threshold voltage to an optical receiver, which is capable of automatically controlling the decision threshold voltage to the optical receiver appropriately to signal level decision on the basis of a low-fr... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307577 | Storm top detection A method of characterizing a maximum height of a storm cell for an aircraft is provided. First reflectivity data formed from a first scan of a storm cell by a radar is received and a first centroid of the storm cell is identified. Second reflectivity data formed fro... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7298317 | Gain compensation in an ultra-wideband transceiver A circuit for providing gain compensation to a swept frequency response in an ultra-wideband system includes using a variable amplitude IF signal into a gigahertz mixer to control the amplitude of a ultra-wideband transmitter. The variable amplitude IF signal is gen... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7284027 | Method and apparatus for high speed calculation of non-linear functions and networks using non-linear function calculations for digital signal processing The invention includes apparatus and methods for high-speed calculation of non-linear functions based upon a shifted adder and a offset generator. Various implementations may preferably include a input preprocessor and/or an output post processor. The invention incl... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274324 | Apparatus and method of tracking objects in flight A path in three-dimensions for an object in flight is determined according to a radar signal reflected by the object. The radar signal is transmitted at an offset angle from horizontal sufficient to capture the object within the transmitted radar signal. The transmi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7268724 | Reduced-error monopulse processor This monopulse processor provides target position information having an RMS error which is less than that of a conventional monopulse processor. A Σ±jΔ vs. Σ processor is modified to provide a position output signal equal to the smaller in absolute magnitude of ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7259714 | Unique space time adaptive system (USS) A method of detecting radar returns and measuring their parameters with or without clutter present and no clutter cancellation employed which includes transmitting at least one pulse; processing the returns surpassing a threshold detected in one range azimuth bin an... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7248205 | Radar apparatus A transmitter emits into an intended search space a radar wave having a predetermined frequency pulse-modulated by a trigger pulse of a predetermined width. A receiver receives a reflected wave of the radar wave and outputs a receive signal. A local pulse generator ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239983 | System and method for measuring characteristics of continuous media and/or localized targets using at least one multi-frequency sensor A method and system is provided for obtaining data indicative of at least one characteristic of a continuous medium or at least one localized target located within a predetermined volume of space. The system includes a sensor configuration with at least one sensor f... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7221307 | Determination of the presence of closely spaced targets An active or passive sensor observes a region, and generates evidence of the type of target or object viewed. The evidence is processed to determine the prior probability that the object is of a particular type. The prior probability so determined is thresholded to ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7212150 | Doppler-sensitive adaptive coherence estimate detector methods A method is provided for detecting a target signal of a specific known form in the presence of clutter. The method includes dividing a set of initial training data, derived from returns from a burst of identical pulses, into a set of censored data and a set of uncen... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209074 | Temperature compensation improvements in radar apparatus A radar-based distance measurement apparatus comprises a microwave circuit comprising a frequency generator which produces a microwave frequency signal, the frequency of which is modulated by an amount determined by a modulation signal applied to the frequency gener... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7205929 | Radar system and vehicle controller incorporating radar system An electromagnetic wave is transmitted from a signal transmission antenna using a signal transmission IC; this electromagnetic wave is received, after having been reflected by a target object, by signal receiving antennas and signal receiving ICs; and the distance t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199751 | Radar equipment A radar equipment of the present invention amplifies a reception signal with feedback based on the delay amount obtained from the correlation detection result. Accordingly, it becomes possible to maintain the reception signal (demodulated signal) level to a proper l... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7187321 | Interference determination method and FMCW radar using the same Occurrence of interference is detected using sampled amplitude data obtained by oversampling a beat signal. It is detected by comparing the absolute value (|VD|) of variation in the sampled data with a threshold value (TH). When interference occurs, a wideband signa... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7161529 | Dual forward scattering method for modeling multipath propagation Analysis of electromagnetic (or acoustic) multipath propagation inventively focuses upon the transmitter-to-target propagation (transmitted propagation reaching target via both direct pathway and forward scattered pathway) and the target-to-receiver propagation (re-... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154433 | Method and device for the detection and track of targets in high clutter A method for discriminating and tracking a target in a clutter cloud includes transmitting a radar signal at a signal bandwidth to: identify a range extent of a clutter cloud; determine a centroid and a velocity growth rate of the clutter cloud; and identify a direc... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151482 | Antenna configuration and radar device including same A radar device (2) includes plural transmission antennas and plural reception antennas. The reception antennas constitute a reception-side antenna portion (20) and are arranged at an interval of d. The transmission antennas constitute a transmission-si... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7145503 | Surface wave radar A surface wave radar system including a receive antenna array (20, 22) for generating receive signals, and a data processing system (24) for processing received data representing the receive signals to mitigate ionospheric clutter. The received data is... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145500 | Pulse wave radar device A pulse wave radar device controls an amplification degree of a receiving circuit, downward at a time of measuring an object at a short distance immediately after transmission of a transmitting pulse wave and upward, at a time of measuring the object at a long dista... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7140040 | Protecting wireless local area networks from intrusion by eavesdropping on the eavesdroppers and dynamically reconfiguring encryption upon detection of intrusion Apparatus for eavesdropping within an area layer adjacent to and surrounding a LAN area periphery for potential wireless transmissions of an intruder having a lower frequency within a level below the LAN frequency; and an implementation responsive to said eavesdropp... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7129885 | Adaptive weather radar detection system and method used in continental and maritime environments A method of adapting weather radar thresholds is disclosed. The method comprises generating a location from a location sensor, retrieving information representative of a weather type from a database, based on the location, and adjusting, automatically, the threshold... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7084806 | Intruding object detecting apparatus, and setting apparatus, setting process and setting confirmation process therefor Provided are an intruding object detecting apparatus (a radio wave sensor) capable of setting an arbitrary detection region, an apparatus for setting the detection region and a setting processe. An intruding object detecting apparatus 51 is installed in a cor... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7085309 | Radiofrequency signal receiver with means for correcting the effects of multipath signals, and method for activating the receiver The receiver (1) for radio-frequency signals (SV1, SV2, SV3, SV4), modulated by specific codes of transmitting sources, such as satellites (S1, S2, S3, 54), includes receiving and shaping means with freq... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7075478 | Radar altimeter having an automatically calibrated sensitivity range control function A radar altimeter for an air vehicle is described. The radar altimeter includes a transmit antenna configured to transmit radar signals toward the ground, a receive antenna configured to receive radar signals reflected from the ground, the receive antenna also recei... | 07/11/2006 |
